SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Left Realism, Critical Criminology, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Left realism: left realism: refers to the writings of british criminologists, like jack young, who were at the forefront of radical criminology in the 1970s, later joined by canadian and. It treats crime as an epiphenomenon with the criminal as a sort of social homunculus or proto-revolutionary being, who is determined, blameless, etc: left realist was mainly focused early on, on predatory street crime like robbery. They look for more policies of crime prevention, victim services, restitution, community service, community policing, and minimal use of prison sentences. They also are wanting to stop violent porn: while they see themselves as having a radical critique to criminology and criminal justi(cid:272)e, their poli(cid:272)(cid:455) positio(cid:374)s are(cid:374)"t differe(cid:374)t fro(cid:373) (cid:373)ai(cid:374)strea(cid:373) li(cid:271)eral (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e-control policies. It is now called critical realism or na ve realism, where they say crime is socially constructed, but that there are objective dimensions to crime. Cultural criminology: was created by jeff ferrell, an american.